I’m just posting tonight so I can say I did. I don’t like this kind of post, but I left it to the last minute and I really don’t want to start skipping days for no good reason. Nothing really exciting happened today. I was sort of busy at work, but not crazy busy. It snowed last night and much of today. We had about an inch on the ground by the time we got home. We’re getting freezing rain tonight and tomorrow, warming up to regular rain, so the snow will be gone soon. And we’ll get to drive to work tomorrow on ice. Yippee.
The dogs really like the snow. While John shoveled the sidewalk, I took them out to run around the backyard. They ran. I stood in one place and encouraged them. And Riley proved to me (again) just how dumb he is. He’s not very good at playing fetch. I mean, he’ll chase the ball, but he doesn’t bring it back. So I picked up a handful of snow, got his attention, and threw it. I didn’t bother packing it, and it drifted back down the ground within two feet of me, but Riley didn’t notice. He ran to back of the yard, and when he got to the back fence, he started looking for it, but not on the ground. He knew it never hit the ground, so he was looking up, at the sky, at the trees – did he think it flew away? Who knows. The best part was how he was running. You know how Pepe Le Pew bounds after the cat he’s always chasing? Ears up, all four legs off the ground at the same time? That’s how Riley made it the back fence. We repeated this over and over again, maybe 12 times, before my hands got too cold to pick up snow. What kind of dog chases a nonexistent ball?
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I think Riley and my dog would have gotten along well…partners in stupidity.